Bill Gates must really be proud that he finallyhas made it, in the eyes of the ICANN grandmasters.

One has to wonder how many ICANN Board memberseven read the application. The rubber stamp wasall inked up as soon as the Microsoft name appeared.

As soon as Gates gets his feet wet in the RegistryBIZness, he will then take whatever TLDs he wants.He could have taken.MOBI without ICANN, but itwas worth seeing how ICANN played that hand.Gates loves to play poker with fools.

But let me get it straight, mobile users won't mind typing in a domain name, but the extra 2 characters of the TLD is a little much. Ok, over many times it can become laborious, so why not just make the mobile devices default to.m? On another note, the reverse resolution seems to be alot like what new.net was doing all along doesn't it?

I was staunchly against the introduction of new TLDs, mainly because there are just so many problems that need to be ironed out with DNS / registrars / registries / etc. However, if ICANN is to facilitate the working Internet, they also have to progress. So, in this I am torn.

But, for mobile users, the existing platform doesn't work well. So, this opens up a whole industry if they do it right, or get laughed off the blog if they flop.